Si Lisao, deep in thought, listened to Ye Siyuan and said, "Your brother certainly is a good one, even better than all of Mingjing’s brothers, myself included."
It was then that Ye Jingzhe, Little Bingshan, saw more and more zombies surging onto the top deck. He said, "Stop chatting, Uncle! This won’t do. We must find another way!"
Si Lisao estimated the ti. While flinging the zombies charging at him into the sea, he said, "Just hold on a bit longer; the rescue should be arriving any mont."
Ye Siyuan was doing the sa, back-to-back with Si Lisao. "Are you talking about the rescue the captain ntioned before?" she asked. "What if they aren’t here to save us but to destroy the whole cruise ship?"
"Then all we can do is pray in our hearts," Si Lisao responded.
As they were speaking, eleven helicopters were seen flying towards them in the distance.
The thunderous roar from afar reached them. Ye Jingzhe, Little Bingshan, who was standing by their side, looked up thoughtfully. He muttered coolly, "Here they co. For better or worse, we’ll soon find out."
At that mont, the approaching helicopters suddenly started frantically strafing the sea surface. The zombies floating in the water were blown to pieces.
A ladder was lowered from one of the helicopters. It wasn’t dropped too low, for fear that the zombies might climb up it. However, this move clearly indicated that the people on the helicopter intended to rescue them.
Ye Jingzhe, Little Bingshan, saw the descending ladder. He called out to Ye Jingzhe and Si Lisao, who were too preoccupied with the battle to look up, "Aunt, Uncle, they’ve co to save us!"
BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!
Several other helicopters initiated a frenzied strafing against the zombies constantly swarming the top deck. But the zombies were not afraid of bullets. Even being shot couldn’t stop their insane rush; not even missing limbs could deter them. The entire top deck filled with a nauseating sll of blood.
The crew on the helicopter made several attempts to lower the ladder, but hesitated each ti. An ard rescuer climbed down the ladder and reached out his hand. "Hand the child first!"
Si Lisao said, "Si Yuan, lift Jingzhe up."
"I can’t free my hands."
Si Lisao quickly scanned the area and decided instantly, "Move back to the railing!"
This was a good plan; they were only a few steps away from the railing anyway, retreating while defending. Once they reached it, Ye Siyuan imdiately dodged behind Si Lisao. She grabbed Ye Jingzhe and lifted him high, hoping to pass him to the rescue personnel on the ladder.
The helicopter pilot, seeing this, cooperated by adjusting the helicopter’s position. The rescuer on the ladder reached out to Ye Jingzhe. "Give your hand."
Ye Jingzhe, Little Bingshan, strained to raise his arms high. The rescuer, a young man, grabbed Ye Jingzhe’s small arm and pulled him up. He then fastened a safety rope around the boy’s waist and asked, "Kid, can you climb up the ladder by yourself? Got the guts?"
"Yes!"
As Ye Jingzhe, Little Bingshan, climbed the ladder, he wondered, Strange, are these rescuers also NPCs? If they weren’t NPCs, how could they possibly see ?
Before Ye Jingzhe, Little Bingshan, could figure it out, he had already climbed onto the helicopter. He was untied by two rescuers, comforted, and checked for any bite marks. After confirming there were no bite marks, the helicopter’s rescue crew breathed a sigh of relief and placed him in a back seat.
Below the helicopter, Ye Siyuan made a split-second decision. She climbed onto the railing, stretched her hand out to the rescuers, and was pulled onto the ladder by them.
After Ye Siyuan climbed onto the ladder, she didn’t want to continue up. Instead, she looked down anxiously at Si Lisao, who was surrounded by zombies, and shouted, "Lisao, give your hand!"
Si Lisao couldn’t free his hands; too many zombies were attacking him. If he spared a hand, he risked being bitten.
Seeing this, Ye Siyuan had a brainwave and suddenly hung herself upside down from the ladder. With her years of dance training, her body was highly flexible. She hooked her legs around the ladder to support herself, her upper body hanging down, both hands ready to grab Si Lisao, watching for a chance to pull him up. Because the helicopter’s positioning and altitude weren’t ideal, her attempts to grab Si Lisao failed several tis. The zombies, seeing the scene, instead began stacking themselves one on top of another, trying to leap up and bite her.
Having no other options, Ye Siyuan said, "Lisao, when you see an opening, jump over the railing! I will catch you, I will definitely catch you. Trust !"
After observing the surroundings, Si Lisao responded with a single word, "Okay!"
This required coordination from all sides. A rescuer climbed back up the ladder into the helicopter and inford the pilot that his cooperation was needed. Once the pilot understood, he adjusted the helicopter’s position. This left Ye Siyuan, still hanging from the ladder, suspended over the sea just outside the cruise ship.
Si Lisao seized the mont, kicked away several surging zombies, and leaped over the cruise ship railing. He had carefully noted Ye Siyuan’s position hanging from the ladder before he jumped. As his body leaped, it traced a parabolic arc over the sea. He nearly missed Ye Siyuan, who was reaching out to catch him. Fortunately, at the last second, she grabbed one of his arms.
The whole process lasted only a few seconds, but Ye Siyuan’s adrenaline surged to its peak. The instant she grabbed Si Lisao’s arm, she was overwheld with mixed emotions. She cried out in excitent, "I caught you, Lisao! I caught you!"
Si Lisao, suspended in mid-air, looked up at the excitedly shouting Ye Siyuan. Her tears of emotion fell onto his thin lips. The fervor in his eyes matched the heat of her tears.
He said, "Yes, Baby. How are you so amazing?"
Ye Siyuan pulled with all her might, finally hauling Si Lisao up. Si Lisao hooked his other hand onto the ladder. He grasped the ladder with one hand and climbed up a few rungs.
Ye Siyuan also grabbed the ladder with both hands, righted herself from her upside-down position, and was imdiately pulled into a tight embrace by Si Lisao. Having narrowly escaped death, they looked into each other’s eyes and smiled.
After their shared laughter, they turned their heads, looking at the terrifying cruise ship receding in the distance, and then back at each other.
Suddenly, Si Lisao used one hand to cradle the back of Ye Siyuan’s head, capturing her lips with his. The two of them, hanging beneath the helicopter, kissed as if they couldn’t bear to part.
Ye Siyuan cried. Despite knowing it was nothing more than a movie’s narrow escape, she felt the most real of experiences. Laying her head on Si Lisao’s chest, their hearts were closer in that mont than ever before.
The emotions forged by facing adversity together are incomparable to the sweet, lengthy phone calls typical of peaceful, prosperous tis. After surviving shared hardships, hearts beco stronger, drawing ever closer, and closer...
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